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No. 236. 
Harpullia pendula Planch. 
The Tulip Wood. 
(Family SAPINDACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Harpullia Roxburgh, in Hortus Bengalensis, p. 86 
(1814). 
Floicers regular, polygamous. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals as many, without any scale, but sometimes 
with inflected auricles at the base of the lamina. Disk inconspicuous. Stamens 5 to 8. Ovary 2-celled, 
with 2 ovules in each cell. Style short or elongated and spirally twisted. Capsule coriaceous, somewhat 
compressed, with 2 turgid lobes opening loculicidally in 2 valves. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, with or without 
an arillus ; cotyledons thick. Trees. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets usually large, the primary veins prominent 
underneath. Flowers in loose terminal little-branched panicles, sometimes reduced to simple racemes, 
Capsules usually large, red or orange coloured. (B.F1. i, 470.) 
Botanical description. Species, H. petidula Planchon, in F. Mueller's" paper in 
Trans. Viet. Inst., iii, 26 (1859). 
The following comprises the whole of the original description : 
Leaflets 2-6, chartaceous, glabrous, lanceolate-ovate, somewhat acuminate, entire ; calyx deciduous ; 
cells of the capsules as long as broad, inside glabrous. 
In the forests near Moreton Bay. 
Here follows Bentham's amplified description : 
A tall tree, glabrous or the young shoots and panicles minutely hoary-tomentose. 
Leaflets 3 to 6, or rarely more, from ovate to elliptical-oblong, obtusely acuminate, 3 to 5 inches 
long, membranous. . 
Panicles loose and slender. 
Pedicels in flower 3 to 4 lines, in fruit \ to 1 inch long, slender. 
Sepals deciduous, about 2 lines long. 
Petals ovate, nearly 3 lines long, with inflected ciliato auricles at the base, representing the inner 
scales of many other Sapindaccn. 
Stamens 5 to 7, much longer than the calyx, with slender filaments in the males, small and short 
in the females. 
Ovary tomentose, with a long style twisted at the top. 
Capsule glabrous or slightly pubescent, 1 to \\ inches broad, the lobes inflated. 
Seeds apparently without any arillus. (B.F1. i, 471 .) 
